Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-11-20-Speech-3-705-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2013-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy - European defence technological and industrial base (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20131120.68.3-705-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-11-20-Speech-3-706-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, as a Euro-realist, of course I accept the reality of the CSDP and the need to engage with it, although many in my own national political party are deeply hostile to the very concept. In my view, the CSDP must always remain subject to unanimity in the Council. I believe that constructive engagement is the way forward, partly because – as was pointed out in the debate – France insists on it as one of only two European major military powers and as a condition of rejoining NATO and its command and control structures. One of my major areas of concern is the risk of duplication of effort in a climate of limited resources in the defence-spending sector, where concepts like NATO, smart defence and the CSDP’s pooling and sharing are being developed – rightly – to save on costs to national budgets. It is also important to avoid decoupling of the European Union’s defence efforts from those of the USA and Canada, with whom we are negotiating free trade agreements at the moment, and the TTIP hopefully in the future. Nevertheless, I am convinced that EUNAVFOR ATALANTA has been a success story – and I drafted a report on this in the Horn of Africa for the Parliament last year – in fighting piracy. The EU training missions in Uganda and Mali have also been very helpful in the combat against Jihadi terrorism, but the jury regrettably is still out on certain civilian missions like EULEX in Kosovo. However, you can rest assured that we in the ECR will continue to take our security role with national parliaments and scrutiny over the CSDP very seriously in future."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2012-03-28--2014-06-30)3 substitute; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-03-28--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Charles Tannock (ECR ). -"1
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